This made me chuckle! I’m close to being 60 and have worn thongs since my teenage years. Sexy? No, just so stinkin’ practical. Underwear bunches up in pants and feels all scrunchy, but thongs stay right where they’re supposed to. I admit to buying lace-free, embellishment-free thongs. They’re my every day underwear. …

For crying out loud, couldn’t he at least get it cut before the UK visit? The flipped up ends in the back look ridiculous. Also, my theory is the slicked back style was because he had to remove his baseball cap in the church and the sweatiness dissolved his gel and hairspray.  He is a stone cold loser in every way.

I so much want to watch it with someone who hasn’t seen it before so I can experience the thrill of their amazement. It’ll be like introducing two people who fall in love, or something. So stinkin’ good.

OK, that makes me laugh! I think this may be my next series to watch. Thank you!

I know this isn’t the point of this article or the roundtable, but I am in LOVE, in LOVE, in LOVE with Fleabag. I finished season 2 and it breaks my heart that it’s done, it’s over, there are no more biting, smart, awkward, hilarious episodes for us. Every minute of it is genius. 

I remember when my dad was excited because he paid $100 for a pillow and got the second pillow for “just one dollar!” The same week we went to Trader Joe’s together and he declared that paying more than $2.oo for a can of soup was ridiculous. I wish there was hyperbole in any of this, but there’s not.

I sure hope that Abigail’s daughter told her that at Durant’s you walk in through the kitchen in the back.  The seasoned, old school staff there likely made her feel right at home and may have pointed out some local celebs, too.  It’s a gem of a place.

I swear, I wouldn’t be at all surprised to hear her theme music on a This American Life episode — it has the same vibe (by which I mean I love it).

I’ll be back in Phoenix in a few weeks for a visit and now I think I’m going to have to pay a visit to Durant’s for old time’s sake. Somehow I feel like my old friends will still be sitting in the booths after a show, even though 20 years have come and gone. Thank you for taking me back to timeless memories!

And the thrill of walking in the back door through the kitchen of Durant’s, too! I haven’t been there in years, but expect it hasn’t changed. It always felt like a movie set of a restaurant, in all the best of ways.

I’m crushed! I’m traveling from California to England just two weeks too late for this. Curse you, cruel travel gods!

This is his only real girlfriend, and their dance together brings me to tears.

Nooooo!  Even watching it again makes me cringe.  Poor guy, but he should have put it in a bowl to at least have something to present to the judges.  

This is both on topic and off topic, and I laughed and laughed.

Oh! Thank you, Jinni :)

I understand the misplaced idea of a hustle to suggest that your life is more interesting and your credentials are something special, but when you fabricate cancer diagnoses into your history, you lose all hope, you big loser. It’s a long game grift.

This is right up my alley! My husband typically does the cooking, but even I can manage this (I say optimistically). The flavors sound sumptuous.

A Whirley Pop is my way to go! It has a spinny thing inside with a rotating handle. When the popcorn’s done we pour it into a brown paper bag, salt it, and shake the bag. At this point we don’t even butter it anymore because there’s enough residual oil to make the salt stick, plus I don’t want to be bothered melting…

Pasta, pasta, pasta, with butter and salt. And eat it until you think you’ll burst.

Yes! I wore Earth Shoes in high school in the ‘70s. At first I wore them because I thought they made me look cool and then I kept wearing them because they were comfortable. I think I wore them until they just about fell apart.